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INITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN E. CROOK, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

SAD-IRON.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 613,250, dated November 1, 1898.

Application led March 31, 1 8 9 8.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN E. CROOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sad-Irons, of which the following is a specication.

The object of my invention is to provide a sad-iron with a removable iire-boX which can be taken out and the charcoal fire started and then quickly replaced, and a fire-box the bottom of which will be elevated above the bottom of the iron and which willbe provided with longitudinal slots which divide the bottom up into grate-bars through which the ashes in the fire-box can be removed by shaking the tireboX and removed from the iron by blowing them out through the chimney of the iron.

The object also is to provide means for regulating the draft through the iron.

Another object of my invention is to provide a self-heating sad-iron, which will embody a iluting device which will not render the iron cumbersome or inconvenient to handle and which luting device will be thoroughly practical.

Another object of my invention is to provide a sad-iron which will be thoroughly eflicient and practical and which can be produced at a moderate cost.

I accomplish the objects of the invention by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view in perspective of my sadiron; Fig. 2, a view in side elevation of same with the stationary fluting-plate applied; Fig. 3, a transverse section on the dotted line 3 3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a longitudinal section on the dotted line 4 4 of Fig. 3; Fig. 5, an end elevation of the lire-bor: removed from the iron. Fig. 6 represents a perspective View of the iiuting devices in operative positions to clearly show the manner of using for fluting.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the body of the iron, which is of the usual shape and form and is made hollow toform achamber A', having at one end the guides formed by a single outer flange a at each side, against which is fitted and slides'the door or gate B,

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having the handle b and the air-supplyopem ings b' near the upper edge thereof. Across the bottom is the inside flange b2, which forms a slot into which the lower end of the door will be dropped; but in practice this fiange is not essential.

D is the lid, which comprises a horizontal plate D', with depending flange D2 inside of the edge of the plate a distance equal to the thickness of the walls of the body A. This ange iits inside of the body, and the latter is fastened to it by the front screw d and the two rear side screws d', one at each side of the iron.

E is a chimney which is cast integral with the lid D, and through this the waste products of combustion escape.

F is a removable handle, the construction and operation of which is well known in the Potts sad-iron (see reissued patent to Potts, No. 5,102, dated October 15, 1872) and need not be described more fully here.

F' is the {ire-box, which is of the same general shape as chamber A', but narrower in order to provide an air-passage F2 between it and the walls of the chamber. It has the top outside ilange F3, which Iits under the iiange D2 of the lid, and will preferably have an upward bevel to correspond with a similar underside bevel on the ange D2. The flange F3 directs the air coming in through the slot downwardly and keeps the ashes in the firebox from falling out when the iron is" turned on its side in the process of iiuting. Through the walls of the body A, on each side of the iron, are the slots A2, which are low enough to miss the ilan ge F3, coming under the latter.

Formed in the under side of the fire-box F are longitudinal grooves Gr, (here shown as three in number, but obviously more or less might be used,) and extending for the greater 'distance of the length of the {ire-box are slots Gf from the grooves into the fire-box. This construction produces the eeet of a grate in the bottom of the fire-box, permitting air to pass up all along the bottom into the burning fuel, and also permitting the ashes in the irebox to drop down into the grooves. This last action will be facilitated by shaking the fire box. The grooves communicate with the chimney, whereby the ashes can be blown out in the direction as shown by the arrows IOO in Fig. l. To facilitate the entrance of aircurrents into these grooves,tl1e ends will have funnel-shaped expansions g. Communication with the air-passages F2 and the grooves G will be had by providing the transverse grooves G2, which intersect the longitudinal grooves. A shoulder II will be formed above the funnel-shaped ends of the grooves G to receive and support the door B when more draft is desired than is obtainable with the door down. The fanning movement in ironing creates a draft.

M is a pocket or hole in the end of the firebox for the engagement of a lifter for inserting and withdrawing the box and for shaking the latter to drop the ashes.

I provide in connection with my iron fluting devices, which consist of the separate handle J, to which is connected the curved iiuting-plate K, which operates in connection with the fluting-plate L, which plate L is secured to the side of the iron.

It is evident that I provide a self-heating sad-iron which is thoroughly efcient.

IVhat I claim as new, and wish to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. The herein-described sad-iron having a hollow body or chamber open at one end and communicating at the other end with an upwardly-projected flue, the walls of said chamber being slotted at or near the upper edge thereof, a removable open-top fire-box removably secured within the chamber and adapted to be inserted through the open end of the latter into the hollow body, said firebox having a grooved and slotted bottom as described to permit the ashes falling therein to be blown out through the chimney, said fire-box having an offset at its rear end and outside flanges at or near its upper edge to hold the fire-box away from the chamber whereby air-passages will be formed between the chamber and the tire-box walls leading from the upper slotted openings in the walls of the chamber to the grooves in the bottom of the fire-box, and the sliding or removable door or gate in one end of the iron adapted to be tilted inward to rest upon the offset on the end of the fire-box to allow the air to be fed into the grooves from the end of the firebox, substantially as described and speciied.

2. The herein-described sad-iron having a two-part hollow body or chamber comprised of a lower one-piece bottom with sides which converge into a pointed front with opposite open end, said sides being slotted longitudinally at or near the top edges for a suitable distance, a lid portion having a chimney and an under side ange with beveled lower edge, said flange fitting inside of the walls of the bottom piece and secured thereto as described, a hollow open-top fire-box with grooved and slotted bottom and outside flanged rim, said fire box having a projecting portion or offset at its rear end and a socket or opening to enable the lire-box to be grasped by a lifter and a door or gate in the end of the iron adapted to be tilted forward to rest on the olset of the fire-box to allow the air to be fed directly from the rear into the grooves in the bottom of the lire-box, all substantially as described and specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at Detroit, Michigan, this 24th day of March, A. D. 1898.

EDWIN E. CROOK.

Witnesses:

N. E. FRISBEY, WM. H. TROMBLEY. 

